Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 148
Shao Shude urgently needs to find out the family background of Nanjun.

He knows roughly, but now that the war is imminent, he needs to be more precise and estimate to see how long he can last.

The fiscal and taxation system of the state and dynasty is roughly divided into three parts: the supply, the envoy, and the state, that is, the pattern of two taxes and three points.

Specifically, in a certain state, the governor will send part of the state's taxes to the Jiedu envoy and the observation envoy, which is called "sending envoys", and the rest will be kept as expenses in the state, which is called "staying in the state", and the Jiedu envoy will send some of the taxes to the state. The tax was sent to the capital, and it was called "offering".

Every feudal town has to hand in the offering, even the towns in Hebei, which have always been domineering, cannot avoid it, more or less.Relying on this system, the imperial court received a total of more than [-] million yuan in taxes (including the conversion of real objects) during the Yuanhe period, which was three to four times that of the Kaiyuan and Tianbao years.

In fact, in terms of population alone, Yan Gengwang and others in later generations believed that although the vassals and towns were separated, the population in Wuzong's reign was not necessarily smaller than that in Tianbao's reign.Otherwise, the tax base will be much lower than that of the Kaiyuan period. Even if the fiscal reform greatly increases commercial taxes, it will be impossible for the mid-Tang Dynasty to achieve three or four times the fiscal revenue—more than 800 million households in the Tianbao period. During the Dali period, there were only 130 million households. As a result, once the two tax laws were implemented, it became more than 300 million households within ten years, and increased to 50 million households in the next 500 years, with an average of 6.63 people per household, exceeding the average of 5 people per household during the Tianbao period. , really amazing.

After Huang Chao entered Chang'an, the offerings in all towns were suspended, and perhaps they will continue to be handed in in the future.Well, some obedient feudal towns have begun to offer sacrifices to Chang'an, although the emperor is still in Shuzhong.

But the eight towns in the northwest of Beijing are already poor, so they haven't paid for it for the time being.Not to mention the wealthy feudal town of Hezhong, all of the 70 yuan a year in salt interest was withheld. It is no wonder that Tian Lingzi later wanted to engage him, not necessarily out of selfishness, but because the court was really short of money.

In the four years of Zhonghe, after four or five years of development, Suizhou's household registration has gradually increased, and more fields have been cultivated. The annual land tax collected 41.42 dendrobium of millet, wheat and miscellaneous grains, 68480 pieces of silk and 12750 coins from the household tax; Yinzhou The land tax is 12.09 dendrobium, the household tax silk is 57920 pieces, and the money is 11313 coins; the Xiazhou local tax is 7.71 dendrobium, the household tax silk is 20960 pieces, and the money is 4094 coins.

Among these three prefectures, the burden of the people in Yinzhou should be the heaviest, because the average population per household is only 3.2, that of Suizhou is 5.96, and that of Xiazhou is 5.53.The reason is that a large number of households have registered households, and they have just married wives, and their household registrations are too few.The national court collects taxes on a per-household basis, so the burden is heavy. If it weren't for the fact that thousands of people from the prefecture went to the prefecture, and one person got four sheep, life would have been very difficult.

It is worth mentioning that Guochao implements a fiscal and taxation policy of living within one's means, that is, to estimate how much money will be spent, then set a target value, and collect taxes according to this value.All the towns in the world basically have the same number of roads. They fought two battles last year and seized too much. Shao Shude confiscated too heavy taxes, allowing the people to breathe a sigh of relief. Livestock go back to feed.

The reason for this is that the tax system at this time is very crude.There is no Internet, no big data, basically it is how much the military leader wants, and then the shogunate roughly estimates the wealth of each state, sets an amount, and then apportions it layer by layer.The military leader doesn't care what the process is, he only wants money.

Shao Shude was afraid that if the harvest was too harsh, those people with few families and few acres would be killed.After all, the bureaucratic system of the Guo Dynasty had great flaws, and the number of officials was too small, which was completely incomparable with the developed bureaucratic system and huge scale of the Song Dynasty, and the collection of taxes was too dependent on the locality.

Especially after the separatism of the feudal towns, a large number of state and county officials were occupied by the shogunate, and they were almost at a standstill, but how many people were there in the shogunate?Don't military leaders have to rely on force to collect taxes and distribute them to the local governments?This process is bound to be uneven. The local gentry and clans have their hands up and down. If one is not good, many people will be killed, or they will be forced to go into exile, and the tax base will be lost.

The three prefectures of Xia, Sui, and Yin are our own foundations, and we must take care of them carefully, and we must not go fishing in a dry lake.In the past few years, the population of the three prefectures has almost doubled. There are immigrants from China, families of soldiers, captive women and children in the grassland, small Dangxiang tribes with registered households of Qimin, and people who have moved from other prefectures one after another. The yellow book of household registration in the second county is generally reliable. After all, they are all newly entered household registrations, and there are actually very few hidden households.It is also because of this that the efficiency of tax collection is actually not low, and it cannot be squeezed too much.

The twelve counties in the three prefectures received a total of 61.22 dendrobiums of grain and beans, 14.42 pieces of silk, and 2.82 coins in total.In addition, there are nearly 18.22 yuan in trade taxes that have just picked up this year, 9.8 yuan in rent from military farms, and about [-] yuan in income from selling military horses.

This regular tax (excluding miscellaneous donations) is actually lower than the national average at this time.If converted into money according to the price of grain in Xiasui, the average household would have more than eight households, and the national average in the first year of Jianzhong was already more than ten yuan. At this time, it will only be higher in the past hundred years.

Of course, the late Tang Dynasty is not the tallest, and the back beam is taller than the late Tang Dynasty.And the Later Liang was still the lowest among the Five Dynasties, and the Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han, and Later Zhou generations were higher than the previous generation.In the Northern Song Dynasty, the per capita burden of farmers increased significantly on the basis of the heaviest taxation in the late Tang and Five Dynasties in the Later Zhou Dynasty. I don't know how the people survived.

Dingnan Army Yajun and State Soldiers are given more than 60 Dendrobium of food a year, more than 2 Dendrobium are paid to soldiers killed or disabled in battle, and more than 90 Dendrobium are consumed daily by soldiers in the battalion. Adding up the three, it is more than [-] Dendrobium a year Thousands of dendrobiums, not to mention money and silk rewards.

Next year, there will be more than [-] yuan in salt profits. The output of newly reclaimed wasteland is also slowly increasing. Coupled with the continuous development of fields in Xia and Yinzhou, the people in Suizhou are also spontaneously increasing the number of acres. Next year's two taxes , Dispute tax, renting military-owned farms and selling horse money, should be able to cover most of the military expenditures.

Well, we can't forget the more than 16 Abbess under our rule.Marshal Shao also apportioned for them, offering [-] head of large livestock and [-] small livestock a year, plus some special products such as leather, medicinal materials, honey, wax, camel hair, etc., with a total value of more than [-] yuan.But this year they won't be able to collect so much, because some tribes have been plundered severely and lost a lot of people. Commander Shao specially allowed them to not be taxed this year.

Anyway, the Dingnan Army captured hundreds of thousands of livestock this year, more than enough to spend.

After making up for the gap in military expenditures, the tribute of the Tibetans on the grasslands can fully cover the salaries of officials in the state and various affairs expenses, and there is even a lot of surplus in general.

That is, what they paid was in kind, and what was seized in the two wars this year was also in kind. It was reflected that the money on paper was enough, but in actual operation, it was a lot of trouble. If you pay officials salaries and give them a cow, what do they do? receive?Sergeants don’t have enough food to eat, how can we use beef, sheep, horse and camel meat to offset part of the food?

So, still need to develop business.The money in the four prefectures of Xia and Sui—specifically referring to copper coins and the silk that undertakes part of the currency function—is seriously insufficient. The overall wealth is enough, but it is not easy to realize it. This problem needs to be solved urgently.

After calculating the family property at hand, Shao Shude's confidence increased greatly, so he directly said to the marching army Sima and Zhidu judge: "Xiazhou Metropolitan Academy is doing its best to make arrows, bow strings, leather armor, tents, ropes and other things. The academy rushes to make iron armor, vests, knives, axes and long spears. In addition, you should calculate again, and calculate according to the consumption of one year. If you need private workshops to make equipment, find someone as soon as possible. No, it is rare to use two majors as the academy The manpower is definitely not enough, and we will implement it now. With a few months, plus the previous inventory, I feel that it is almost the same.”

"Since the Commander-in-Chief has ordered us, we will do it immediately." Wu Lian and the two said.

"Okay, you've worked hard. The first month hasn't passed yet, so I'm going to be busy with this matter."

"This matter is about the general plan, how can you ignore it? This is my farewell."

After sending the two away, Shao Shude went to the Marquis of Duyu to summon the generals who were still in Xiazhou.He doesn't intend to keep his hands when he fights in Lingzhou, he will bring all capable troops and generals with him.

The system of the Dingnan Army is relatively stable among all the towns in the world today.Since the Xuanzong Dynasty began to have the position of coach, the power of the general of the feudal town has been weakened step by step.The generals who went out to guard were okay, they controlled the army themselves, and they could rebel if they disagreed, but the generals were indeed crushed to death.

Big towns such as Hedong, Chengde, Hezhong, Weibo, and Jiannan rely on military envoys to seize the power of logistics, and rely on coaches to seize the power of training. The Yamen will be completely reduced to idlers who clock in and go to work in the Duyuhousi, unless procedures are followed. Then lead the troops to go out, otherwise you will not be able to contact the army and it will be difficult to rebel.

During the Qianfu period, Shao Shude was still in Hedong to conquer Li Guochang and his son. At that time, Li Shao was the envoy of supply and demand in Hedong, and Zhang Yanqiu was the coach of the capital. Only military power will do.Otherwise, they can only rely on reasons such as reducing rewards, hoping to incite soldiers to rebel to achieve their goals.

After Li Keyong took over Hedong, because he was an outsider, he couldn't afford to support the [-] soldiers under him, so half of them were dismissed. Therefore, when facing the tens of thousands of Yajun troops in Hedong, he was under great pressure and brought this system to the extreme.He didn't even trust the coaches, and he changed players twice a year, so he didn't know why he was in a panic.

The generals of the Dingnan Army in the state are basically the group of people who were invited to the dinner on the Shangyuan Festival.Shao Shude thought for a while, and decided to transfer Yang Liang from Suizhou to serve as Xiazhou military envoy, in charge of two thousand state soldiers, Zhen Xu was transferred to Yinzhou military envoy, and monk Sanmu was in charge of Suizhou state soldiers.

After clarifying the generals left behind in the rear, he decided to appoint Wang Yu as the envoy of the economic strategy army, Li Yixian, the tenth general of his own soldiers, was transferred to serve as the deputy envoy, and Cai Songyang was promoted to be the Marquis of Duyu.He personally led the Tielin Army, Li Yanling served as the deputy envoy, promoted Li Renjun to be Marquis of Duyu, and promoted Xu Hao to be the envoy of Youyi.The iron cavalry army was in charge of Zhe Siyu, and the coach of the capital made Zhu Shuzong stay in Xiazhou.

Yi Congjun expanded as soon as possible.The 4000 people from the Grassland and Hengshan tribes haven't come yet, so it's good, let them send some more, expand the total force to [-], and set off with the army.Shao Shude didn't expect them to play much role, if they could help escort the food and guard the prisoners, a few elites would be considered qualified if they could get into the battle.

These three armies set out from Xiazhou, and after joining Wuwei Army in Youzhou, the total strength will reach [-].Youzhou built a thousand state soldiers, selected from the Suizhou Tuntian soldiers, and promoted Shao Desheng to serve as the military envoy of Youzhou to guard the city of Yuzhou.

After the plan is over, each general will bring his own soldiers to the army to familiarize himself with the troops.The ordnance began to work overtime to arrive, and the grain and grass were transported to Yuzhou ahead of schedule.These things should be completed before the end of March.Before that, it depends on whether the court is strong enough. In short, Han Lang and Kang Yuancheng cannot be given the name, and they cannot be allowed to control Lingzhou in a legitimate way.

As for whether he can get the name of Lingzhou, it doesn't matter, anyway, he is now in the name of conquering the Hexi party that crossed the border and robbed Youzhou.For the future, take one step at a time.

　When I write books, I like to build models and list data, such as population, taxation, production capacity, number of troops, etc., otherwise I will forget it later.It is also unclear how much the army spends, how much the government spends, how much the project spends, and whether the finances can support it.

　　Those who like to read this book should like to have a stronger sense of reality.My philosophy is that the closer to the real obscenity, the better.

　　The data in my book will not be nonsense, I dare not write without sources, and will find ways to avoid it.Written, hated to check the source of the information, and then consider whether it is close to the actual situation in Xiazhou.I can't say it will be accurate, but try to be as accurate as possible.

　　Each author has his own different style.Some authors completely avoid basic economic, political, institutional and other factors, and they are good at characters, blood and so on.I like farming. I have the cheek to say that I am good at farming and deduction. It is closer to reality and makes everyone feel reasonable.

　　The previous chapters did not explain Xia Sui's economic data in detail, so I will list them in this chapter. In the future, I will list the data myself in the background, and I will mention it briefly in the article, so as not to waste words.

　　Hope you like it.

　　
　
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